Projektnummer

0055186

Zusammenfassung

This project investigates similarities in the grammars of unrelated languages that result from convergence through extensive bilingualism within speech communities. It involves two pairs of endangered languages from different language families: two northern Australian languages from the Non-Pama-Nyungan (Jaminjung) and the Pama-Nyungan group (Ngarinyman), and two languages spoken in the Central Solomon Islands but belonging to the "Papuan" (Savosavo) and the Austronesian group (Gela). The focus will be on the domain of information structure, i.e. the use of intonation, word order, and ...